The Delhi Disaster Management Authority in its order dated 10th May 2020 has issued a new Standard Operating Procedure, under which all Covid-19 hospitals and other facilities will e-mail a ‘death report’ to the government by 5 pm every day. The government shall constitute a Death Audit Committee to monitor the mortality.
Every COVID-19 hospital and other health facilities will appoint nodal officers who will ensure timely communication of deaths and in case of no death, even then a NIL report shall be furnished. The matter will be escalated to the level of state surveillance officer and then the director-general of health services if the report is not received by the state Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) at 5 pm.
The hospitals that fail to send a report by 6 pm, the nodal officer will have to report the numbers to the state health secretary the next morning before 11 A.M, along with details of the deceased, and an explanation of the delay in sharing the information.
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